Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

Having thus done with the work of Cogitation, Then fall upon the work of Application, to apply these fore-mentioned truths unto thy self, for the warming of thine heart, and quickening of thine affections.

1 Make this application to thy self, to look after Jesus Christ, and to value him above all things. Let the consideration of thy manifold sins drive thee unto Jesus Christ, who alone can free thee from the guilt of them, and punishments due unto them. Happy is he whom the sense of his sins makes to long in his soul for Christ, and to count all things but dross and dung in comparison of him;¹ and that rejoiceth in that fountain of grace which the Lord hath opened for sin, and for uncleanness; and triumphs in his spirit, because of the hope to be discharged by another, of that, for which himself cannot satisfy.

1 Make this application to thy self, to look after Jesus Christ, and to value him above all things. Let the consideration of thy manifold sins drive thee unto Jesus Christ, who alone can free thee from the guilt of them, and punishments due unto them. Happy is hee whom the sense of his sins makes to long in his soul for Christ, and to count all things but dross and dung in comparison of him;¹ and that rejoyceth in that fountain of grace which the Lord hath opened for sin, and for uncleanness; and triumphs in his spirit, because of the hope to be discharged by another, of that, for which himself cannot satisfie.

1. 1Zech. 13. 1.